An Okie teacher banished to the Midwest.
"Education is not the filling a bucket but the lighting of a fire."-- William Butler Yeats

Monday, October 09, 2006

Movie Madness Monday 34: Accents Overheard at the Fair

Let us now celebrate the safe return of the Clan Cornelius from the Old Home State, and not hang our heads low from the outcome of that little football game in Dallas, but now condescend to play Movie Madness Monday-- the movie quote trivia game.

So here's the sitcheeashun: I give you some quotes, you respond with some of your own from the same fine piece of cinema, but you don't name the film until Thursday, so that ever'one gits ta play. Okie-dokie?

Here ya go, then:

"Vernon here's got a job. Vernon's got prospects."

"Oh, George... not the livestock!"

"I'll tell you what I am - I'm the damn paterfamilias!"

"A woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man."

"I had to be up at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil." "Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated."

"We got you surrounded! Just come on out and grabbin' air! And don't try nothing fancy! Your sitcheeashun is purty nigh hopeless!"

"I'm gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!"

****Thursday Update: Ulysses had nothing on this update, which wasO BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

What's On the Bookshelf? (And stacked on the floor, and in the loo, and next to my bed, and in my backpack....)

Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamonn Duffy

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling

Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher

The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde

Columbine, by Dave Cullen

The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins

Here, Bullet, by Brian Turner

Random Thoughts

"Read-ity read read read."-- The Ramblin' Educat

"Personally, I think for democracy to exist, opposition is key. History seems to bear that out. One sign you're doing a good job is when the only argument the extablishment can muster is "shut up" and variations on that theme.-- NYC Educator

"The only thing worse than having no taste is having no shame."-- via Mamacita

"The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse is because you cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery & Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment."-- Molly Ivins (via Mike in Texas!)

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."-- Dean Wormer, Animal House

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."-- John Steinbeck